A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

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

A large wind turbine installation in central Washington State is home to an extensive set of interpretive exhibits.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

The largest non-native tree in Washington

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

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

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

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.