People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

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

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

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

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

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.