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

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

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

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.