A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

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

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

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

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

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."

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

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

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

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.