Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

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

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

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

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.