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

Site of a tragedy on the Oregon Trail.

The oldest city park in Walla Walla is home to hundreds of birds, from wood ducks to white peacocks.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

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

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

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

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

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

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

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

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

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

An eclectic collection of wind-powered sculptures made from found and recycled materials.

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

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

An enormous boulder deposited by the Scabland floods lies in the Quincy Basin among a host of smaller boulders.

A monument tucked within a suburban neighborhood commemorates the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean.