This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

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

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

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

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

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

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.

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

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

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.