This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

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

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

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

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

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.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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