Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

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

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

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

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

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

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.