A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

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

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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