An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

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

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

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

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.