A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

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

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

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.