With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

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

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.