A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Wind power station for making famous Ketel One vodka.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

The most confusing clock in New York.