Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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

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

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.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Singapore's oldest Hindu temple.