These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.

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

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

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

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

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