These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

This waterfront restaurant was the life of the party until a crime syndicate burned it to the ground.

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

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

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

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

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.