The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

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

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The magic's in the hole!

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

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

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.