Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

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

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

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

The magic's in the hole!

Always a new use for this old building.

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

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

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.