This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

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

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

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

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

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.