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

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

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

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

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.