The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

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

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

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

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

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

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.