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

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

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

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.

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

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Right here, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition boiled ocean water to make salt.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

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

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

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

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

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