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A museum displaying an impressive collection of pre-contact Makah artifacts.

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

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

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

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

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

A diorama lover's dream world.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

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

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

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

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

A 1940's shrine dedicated to drowned fishermen on the outskirts of Honolulu.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.