Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

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

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

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

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

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

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.