This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

These were the largest wind chimes in the world when artist Tom Van Sant created them for a California mall in 1967.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."