This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

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

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

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

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

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

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Rare and gorgeous birds abound in this protected wildlife sanctuary.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.