Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

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

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

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

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

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

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

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

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

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.