"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

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

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

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

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

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

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

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

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

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

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

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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