A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.