This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

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

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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