The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

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

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

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

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

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.