A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Always a new use for this old building.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.