Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

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

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

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

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

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

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

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

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

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

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.