Seattle, Washington
Montlake Spite House
This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Vantage, Washington
Ginkgo Petrified Forest
An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.
Granite Falls, Washington
Big Four Ice Caves
Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.
Tacoma, Washington
Bridge of Glass
A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.
Seattle, Washington
Psychic Chicken of Seattle
Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.
Leavenworth, Washington
Leavenworth's Bavarian Village
One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.
La Push, Washington
Rialto Beach Tree Graveyard
Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.
McMinnville, Oregon
Evergreen Aviation Museum
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.
McMinnville, Oregon
The Spruce Goose
The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.
Crater Lake, Oregon
Old Man of the Lake
A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.
Portland, Oregon
The Grotto
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
Crater Lake, Oregon
Crater Lake
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Seattle, Washington
Narihira Poetry Plaque
Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.
Seattle, Washington
Gum Wall
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Seattle, Washington
Bettie Page House
What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!
Arlington, Washington
Giant Cedar Stump
At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.
Bellingham, Washington
Statue of JJ Donovan
Take a selfie with one of the area’s founding fathers.
Ferndale, Washington
Metallica Bridge
Defaced since the early 80s, this bridge has become local icon to the metalheads and residents of the city.
Washington, D.C.
Temperance Fountain
A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.
Washington, D.C.
Lincoln Book Tower
A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.
Permanently Closed
Washington, D.C.
The Unabomber's Cabin
It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
Washington, D.C.
Misspelling at the Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial has inspired many, even though a word on the inscription appears to be spelled incorrectly.
Washington, D.C.
'Ginevra de’ Benci' Portrait
The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.
Washington, D.C.
The Lockkeeper's House
A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.
