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

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

A lava tube cooled to form this long tunnel that stays chilly even at the height of summer.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

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

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

The window above the urinal in the men's restroom is a giant periscope that offers a panoramic view of Eagle Harbor.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

In addition to what was once the world’s largest single-loom carpet, this charming space contains a pair of unique flags in American history.

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

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

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

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

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.