This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

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

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

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

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

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

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

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

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

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

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

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

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

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

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

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

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.