A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

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

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

This Old Town cabin tells the story of Tacoma's settlement through a replica of its first non-Native building.

This waterfront restaurant was the life of the party until a crime syndicate burned it to the ground.

This municipal sundial has been keeping time along Tacoma's Commencement Bay since 1978.

The oldest remaining building in Tacoma was once the home of the "oldest bell tower" in America.

This statue honors Marvin Klegman, a heroic child who died while saving another boy's life in a 1949 earthquake, and shares his long untold story.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

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

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

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