Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

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

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

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

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

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

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

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.