This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

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

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

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

A picturesque example of brute-force engineering conquering nature.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.