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

This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

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

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

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

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

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

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

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