The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

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

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

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.