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

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.