This replica of a historic fishing shack long dubbed the most painted building in America.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

The remnants of a fictional Viking village film set now serve as an educational and historical hotspot.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

A man's home is his castle.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.