The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

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

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

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

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

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

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

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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