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Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

A heartfelt tribute to all of the victims of one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

This municipal sundial has been keeping time along Tacoma's Commencement Bay since 1978.

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

Along with used instruments, this pawn shop has pieces of music history on display.

A startling waterfall, not far from a roadside viewpoint.

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

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

This multi-functional park is a marvel of civic engagement.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

The largest non-native tree in Washington

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

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

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

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

Sharing the often-overlooked story of America's Black soldiers.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

Tucked away in Seward Park is Seattle’s only old-growth forest.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

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