Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

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

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

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

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

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

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

A rim-made reptile in North Dakota.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.