The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

A museum dedicated to an elusive cryptid.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

This unique library spans a mighty river.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

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

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.