Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

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

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

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

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

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

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

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

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

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

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

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.