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

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

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

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

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

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

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

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

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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.

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

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

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