This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

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

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

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

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

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

It's a memorial to the beloved, ugly carpet that adorned the Portland airport (PDX) for 30 years.

The Columbia Gorge Hotel sits as a beacon in the Columbia River Gorge and is also said to be haunted.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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