Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

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

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

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

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

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

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

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

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

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

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

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.