A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

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

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

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

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

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

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.