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

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

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

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

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

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

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.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

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

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.