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

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

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

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

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

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

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

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.