Castle Valley, Utah
Fisher Towers
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
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Castle Valley, Utah
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Thompson Springs, Utah
Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.
Payson, Utah
A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.
Thompson, Utah
A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
San Juan County, Utah
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
John Day, Oregon
This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
Government Camp, Oregon
Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Port Townsend, Washington
City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.
Gold Bar, Washington
A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.
Seattle, Washington
Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.
Leavenworth, Washington
This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.
Seattle, Washington
The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.
Chehalis, Washington
A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.
Seattle, Washington
The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.
Seattle, Washington
The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.
Seattle, Washington
Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.
Poulsbo, Washington
The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.