Places alaskanmoss Wants to Go

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

Meet me at the most confusing intersection in Seattle.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

A historic hotel with many stories of haunted activity.

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

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

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

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

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

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

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

A mesmerizing amount of crazy art is attached to the side of this house on Seattle's Phinney Ridge, bringing smiles to those who venture down the driveway to take a look.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.