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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

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.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

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