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Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

Right here, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition boiled ocean water to make salt.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

This 85-foot-long table is made from a single slice of an old-growth Douglas Fir.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

A circular two-story museum built completely by hand with 800 tons of rock.