This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

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

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.