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The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

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

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

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

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

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

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

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.

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

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.