A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

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

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.