This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

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

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Always a new use for this old building.

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

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

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

Orcas on display and in the water.

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

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

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

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