Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

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

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

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

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

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

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

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

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

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

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

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

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.