The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.