A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Orcas on display and in the water.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

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

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

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

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

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

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

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

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

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

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

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

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

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

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.