Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

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

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

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

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

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

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

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

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

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

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

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

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.