Places GuttersnipeRebecca Wants to Go

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

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

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

The largest mausoleum on the West Coast, with over seven miles of corridors, perched on a riverside bluff.

The ruins of a failed dam that was built over land later described as a "sponge."

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

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

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

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.

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

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

Take a dip beneath the stalactites in this amazing cenote.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

Three sinkholes filled with warm, crystal-clear water reached by a horse-driven cart on an old train track through the jungle.