This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs still net migrating salmon in the traditional way at this cataract on the Deschutes River.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

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

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.