This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

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

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

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

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

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

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.