The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

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

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

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

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

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

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

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

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