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A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

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

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.