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  • Tip O’ The Hat ‘N’ Boots

    Trunkations.

    Seattle - Lovers of down home colossal kitsch are kicking up their heels upon receiving news that the restoration of Seattle’s iconic Hat ‘n’ Boots is nearing completion. Full story

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  • Midland Mosaics - Backyard Giants

    Midland Mosaics - Backyard Giants

    Tacoma, Washington

    A tile craftsman has transformed his backyard into an art garden of giant heads and figures.

  • Shrine to Tacoma's Super-Salesman

    Shrine to Tacoma's Super-Salesman

    Tacoma, Washington

    Tacoma would be nothing if not for the ideas that poured from this man's brain.

  • Marvin Carr's One of a Kind in the World Museum

    Marvin Carr's One of a Kind in the World Museum

    Spokane, Washington

    Eclectic collection of the valuable and the ridiculous. Includes Jackie Gleason car and shrine, taxidermied hunting trophies, manic frog music machine built by Marvin.

  • Nuclear B Reactor

    Nuclear History: B Reactor

    Hanford, Washington

    Welcome to the Cathedral of Bomb, where boron balls and tons of river rock might stop a nuclear meltdown.

  • Fiji Mermaid

    Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

    Seattle, Washington

    Souvenir shop packed to the rafters with animal freaks, oddities, and mummy love couple Sylvia and Sylvester.

  • Art Yard entrance

    RichArt's Art Yard

    Centralia, Washington

    Rich Tracy will explain his jumble of sculptures and yard art to anyone with 5 dollars and 55 minutes to spare

  • Jake statue atop Marsh's Free Museum

    Marsh's Free Museum

    Long Beach, Washington

    This enduring beachfront gift shop/museum is the home of Jake the Alligator Man and Morris the Cat -- both stuffed. Jam packed full of oddities.

  • Java Jive coffee pot

    Bob's Java Jive

    Tacoma, Washington

    In wide awake Washington state, the coffee pot-shaped World Famous Bob's Java Jive is a required stop.

  • Tombstone Willie's Saloon

    Pickled Pioneer

    Menlo, Washington

    Dead boy carried from Missouri in 1855 in a coffin filled with whiskey. Go west, young cadaver!

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