Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

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

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.