This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

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

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

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

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This is the house that spite built.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.