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

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

An oasis of lilies cultivated by the "Indiana Jones of Water Lilies."

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

The world's most elegant power lines.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.