In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

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

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

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

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

Orcas on display and in the water.

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

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

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

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

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

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.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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.

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

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.