This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

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

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

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

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.