A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

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

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

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

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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

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

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

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

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