This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

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

This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

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

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

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

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.