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

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

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

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

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

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

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.