A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

This hiking/biking/horse trail along an old railroad grade features trestles, tunnels, and a roadless stretch through the scenic Susan River canyon.