Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

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

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

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

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

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

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

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

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.