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A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction
In Seattle, where art seems to spring from the ground like weeds from sidewalk cracks, it takes a truly audacious design to generate as much attention as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's... »
Architectural Oddities, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by canuck, Dylan and 2 others
The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle.
Located at the Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World's Fair, during which time nearly 20,000 people a day used the elevators, with over 2.3 million visitors in all for the World Fair.... »
Architectural Oddities | Edited by canuck
A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds
"A Sound Garden" is an huge musical instrument and art installation created by Douglas R. Hollis, on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Western Service Center campus.
Located... »
Outsider Art, Unusual Monuments, Inspired Inventions, Musical Wonders | Edited by Dylan
Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed
In central Washington, on the opposite side of the Upper Grand Coulee from the Columbia River, and at the head of the Lower Grand Coulee, exists a three and a half mile-long scalloped precipice... »
Watery Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck and Dylan
Orcas on display and in the water
Nestled in the San Juan Islands, the Whale Museum is part natural history museum, part research station. The museum supports and does research on three pods of Orca whales living in the adjacent... »
Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Dylan
In Greenwood Cemetery in Spokane Washington, there is a staircase that has the reputation of being haunted.
They say, if you walk up the stairs without any lights, when you reach the top... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by A Facebook user
A giant Troll lurks under a Seattle bridge overpass
An 18-ft. tall troll made of cement clutchs an old VW car underneath this Seattle overpass. Made in the 1970s since that time the troll has had a rough go of it, and is often getting spraypainted,... »
Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Dylan
Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds
The swath of grassy humps known as the Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve spins a mystery as yet without an ending.
As with any good story, context is critical: where a single... »
Geological Oddities | Edited by zenomott and wythe
This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion... but not for the reason you may think
The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, and collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7, 1940. The suspension bridge spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait between Tacoma and the Kitsap... »
Strange Science, Disaster Areas, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Annetta
