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Strange Museums

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Seattle, Washington

A working waterfront souvenir shop doubles as a free museum packed with mummies, strange animal specimens, vintage machines, and more than a century of collected oddities.

Curious Landmarks

Dick and Jane’s Spot

Ellensburg, Washington

A private Ellensburg home has spent decades growing a yard full of reflectors, bottle caps, bicycle wheels, carved heads, mosaics, whirligigs, and outsider art.

Historic Oddities

Seattle Underground

Seattle, Washington

Beneath modern Pioneer Square lies a buried layer of old Seattle, where former sidewalks, storefronts, and first floors survive below the streets used today.

Giant Objects

Fremont Troll

Seattle, Washington

An 18-foot concrete troll crouches beneath Seattle's Aurora Bridge with one enormous hand wrapped around a real Volkswagen Beetle.

Natural Oddities

Ape Cave

Cougar, Washington

Beneath the forests near Mount St. Helens runs a roughly 2.5-mile lava tube where visitors explore darkness, rock falls, and an underground lava waterfall.

Curious Landmarks

Maryhill Stonehenge

Goldendale, Washington

A full-scale concrete Stonehenge replica overlooks the Columbia River, complete with artificially roughened blocks built to mimic ancient stone.

Roadside Attractions

Seattle Gum Wall

Seattle, Washington

Thousands of pieces of chewed gum have transformed a brick alley beside Pike Place Market into a sticky, multicolored public artwork nobody officially planned.

Curious Landmarks

Nutty Narrows Bridge

Longview, Washington

A sixty-foot suspension bridge made for squirrels crosses a Longview street using an old fire hose and pieces of television antenna.

Giant Objects

Giant Frying Pan and Spitting Clam

Long Beach, Washington

A 14-foot frying pan and five-foot razor clam share a Long Beach corner, and the clam periodically spits water at anyone standing nearby.

Roadside Attractions

The Codger Pole

Colfax, Washington

A 65-foot chainsaw-carved pole depicts fifty-one elderly football players who returned to the field in 1988 to replay a rivalry game they had first played fifty…

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Egg

Winlock, Washington

Winlock celebrates its poultry history with a twelve-foot egg weighing about 1,200 pounds, continuing a giant-egg tradition that began more than a century ago.

Giant Objects

Hat ‘n’ Boots

Seattle, Washington

A 44-foot cowboy hat and a pair of 22-foot boots are the surviving pieces of a 1950s gas station that turned Western footwear into architecture.