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A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

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

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.