A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Always a new use for this old building.

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

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

These gardens celebrate the biological and cultural diversity of the Hawai‘ian Islands.

One of Oahu’s best snorkeling and diving spots was created by warm water discharged from the nearby power plant.

Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.