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Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.