This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

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

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

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.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

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

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

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

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

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

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

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

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

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

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

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

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."