Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

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

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

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

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

Orcas on display and in the water.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

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

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

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

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

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

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

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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.