A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

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

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.