The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

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

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

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

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

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

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.