The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

A large, historic railroad trestle over the Columbia River is now open for non-motorized traffic.

A former railroad trestle over Interstate 90 has been refurbished for non-motorized traffic on the Palouse to Cascades trail.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

These split boulders mark equinoxes and solstices along the Seattle skyline.

This landmark vessel dry-berthed in Tacoma's harbor served in emergencies and ceremonies for more than 50 years.

The oldest remaining building in Tacoma was once the home of the "oldest bell tower" in America.

This statue honors Marvin Klegman, a heroic child who died while saving another boy's life in a 1949 earthquake, and shares his long untold story.

A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.

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

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

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

Meet me at the most confusing intersection in Seattle.

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

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

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

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

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.