Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

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

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

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

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

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

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.