Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

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

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

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

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

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

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

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