Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Launchpad for the US military’s dead mouse operation to battle millions of snakes.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A newspaper building that made radio history.