At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

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

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.