Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

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

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.