Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

World's largest Christmas store.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

This previously dilapidated alleyway has been transformed into one of Melbourne's finest hidden art locations.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

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

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

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

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

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