The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

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

Always a new use for this old building.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

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

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

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

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

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

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.