Richland, Washington
B Reactor
A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.
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Richland, Washington
A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.
Bend, Oregon
The world's last remaining store of its kind.
Crater Lake, Oregon
A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.
Bainbridge Island, Washington
This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.
Seattle, Washington
42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.
Seattle, Washington
The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.
Seattle, Washington
A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Longview, Washington
This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Boise, Idaho
The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.
Boise, Idaho
This work of art by Matthew Mazzotta resides in this park dedicated to the first black legislator in Idaho.
Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Pompeii, Italy
Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.
Thurmont, Maryland
A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.
Denver, Colorado
A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.
East Palo Alto, California
An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.
Poulsbo, Washington
Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Cave Junction, Oregon
This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.
John Day, Oregon
This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.