The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

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

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.