No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

This Old Town cabin tells the story of Tacoma's settlement through a replica of its first non-Native building.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.