A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

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

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

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

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

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

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

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.