This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

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

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

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

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

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

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