A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

Definitely not a clown bar.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.