Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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

Orcas on display and in the water.

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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.