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This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The magazine keeps a perfectly groomed display garden for its photo shoots.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

A large, historic railroad trestle over the Columbia River is now open for non-motorized traffic.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

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

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

Sharing the often-overlooked story of America's Black soldiers.

A mesmerizing amount of crazy art is attached to the side of this house on Seattle's Phinney Ridge, bringing smiles to those who venture down the driveway to take a look.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.