This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

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.

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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

These fossilized remains of an ancient saber-toothed cat inspired the mascot of Nashville's NHL team.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.