Washington (state)

(My contributions at the end)

49 Places

Seattle, Washington

Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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Seattle, Washington

Seattle's Ramps to Nowhere

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

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Toutle, Washington

North Fork Survivors

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

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George, Washington

George Washington Bust in George, WA

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

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Soap Lake, Washington

Soap Lake

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

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Mukilteo, Washington

Future of Flight Aviation Center

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

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Quincy, Washington

Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies

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

Richland, Washington

Hanford Site

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

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Elma, Washington

Satsop Nuclear Power Plant

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Seattle, Washington

Hiram M. Chittenden Locks

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

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Vantage, Washington

Ginkgo Petrified Forest

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

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Coulee City, Washington

Dry Falls

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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Touchet, Washington

Twin Sisters

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

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Leavenworth, Washington

Iron Goat Trail

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

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Leavenworth, Washington

Leavenworth's Bavarian Village

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

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Ashford, Washington

Mount Rainier

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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North Bend, Washington

Snoqualmie Tunnel

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

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Carnation, Washington

Camlann Village

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

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LaCrosse, Washington

Palouse Falls

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

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Goldendale, Washington

Maryhill Museum and Stonehenge

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Seattle, Washington

Gas Works Park

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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Stevenson, Washington

Beacon Rock

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

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Cougar, Washington

The Ape Cave

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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Seattle, Washington

Seattle Underground

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

North Bend, Washington

Lester Ghost Town

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

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Seattle, Washington

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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Coulee City, Washington

Summer Falls

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

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Mold, Washington

Banks Lake

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

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Old Town, Washington

Dungeness Spit

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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Seattle, Washington

Suzzallo Library Reading Room

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

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Seattle, Washington

Dusty Strings

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

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Renslow, Washington

Wild Horse Wind Farm

A large wind turbine installation in central Washington State is home to an extensive set of interpretive exhibits.

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Redd, Washington

Juniper Dunes Wilderness Area

One of the northernmost occurrences of western juniper can be found in the sand dunes of Washington's Palouse.

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Helen, Washington

Hanford Reach National Monument

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

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Walla Walla, Washington

Whitman Mission National Historic Site

Site of a tragedy on the Oregon Trail.

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Lake Chelan

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

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Ephrata, Washington

Monster Rock

An enormous boulder deposited by the Scabland floods lies in the Quincy Basin among a host of smaller boulders.

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Nike Missile Control Site H-06

In the late 1950s this site was the control center for Nike missiles defending the Hanford nuclear site.

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Lewis & Clark Trail State Park

The Lewis and Clark expedition camped here on their return in spring 1806.

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Renslow, Washington

Renslow Trestle

A former railroad trestle over Interstate 90 has been refurbished for non-motorized traffic on the Palouse to Cascades trail.

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Old Missile Site

An abandoned ICBM site from the early 1960s.

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Everett, Washington

Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum

Three hangars filled with meticulously restored aircraft and armored vehicles.

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Kenmore, Washington

St. Edward State Park

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

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Tukwila, Washington

The Museum of Flight

An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.

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Richland, Washington

LIGO Hanford Observatory

One of two observatories in the U.S. that routinely detect gravitational waves.

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Ellensburg, Washington

Umtanum Creek Footbridge

The last surviving footbridge in the Yakima Canyon, now a historic landmark, provides access to wilderness west of the Yakima River

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North Bonneville, Washington

Bonneville Lock & Dam

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

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