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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.