This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

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

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

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

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

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.