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

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

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

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

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

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

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

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

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

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

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.