A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.