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

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

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

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

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

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.