Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Definitely not a clown bar.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

Mexican food and folk art.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.