Is this the most Portland place ever?

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.