This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.