Washington
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How We Almost Lost Our Atomic Marbles
Richland - Richland, Washington (Home of “The Bombers”), has never shied from showing pride in its nuclear heritage. Full story
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Featured Attractions
Giant Shoe Museum
Seattle, Washington
World's Largest Collection of Giant Shoes is presented in coin op sideshow style at the Pike Place Market.
Grand Coulee Dam Laser Light Show
Coulee Dam, Washington
Free nightly extravaganza employs laser tech and 1970s synth noodlings.
Dinosaur Town With Volcano Toilets
Granger, Washington
Granger is infested with prehistoric creatures and a volcanic Lava-tory.
Midland Mosaics - Backyard Giants
Tacoma, Washington
A tile craftsman has transformed his backyard into an art garden of giant heads and figures.
Marvin Carr's One of a Kind in the World Museum
Spokane, Washington
Eclectic collection of the valuable and the ridiculous. Includes Jackie Gleason car and shrine, taxidermied hunting trophies, manic frog music machine built by Marvin.
Nuclear History: B Reactor
Hanford, Washington
Welcome to the Cathedral of Bomb, where boron balls and tons of river rock might stop a nuclear meltdown.
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
Seattle, Washington
Souvenir shop packed to the rafters with animal freaks, oddities, and mummy love couple Sylvia and Sylvester.
RichArt's Art Yard
Centralia, Washington
Rich Tracy will explain his jumble of sculptures and yard art to anyone with 5 dollars and 55 minutes to spare
Marsh's Free Museum
Long Beach, Washington
This enduring beachfront gift shop/museum is the home of Jake the Alligator Man and Morris the Cat -- both stuffed. Jam packed full of oddities.
Bob's Java Jive
Tacoma, Washington
In wide awake Washington state, the coffee pot-shaped World Famous Bob's Java Jive is a required stop.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Carnation: Champion Milk Cow Statue
- Centralia: RichArt's Art Yard
- Chehalis: Yardbird statues
- Colfax: Codger Pole
- Coulee Dam: Grand Coulee Dam Laser Light Show
- Electric City: Gehrke's Windmills [tips]
- Elk: The Robot Hut
- Ellensburg: Dick and Jane's Spot
- George: George, Washington
- Granger: Dinosaur Town with Volcano Toilets
- Hanford: Historic Nuclear B Reactor
- Kid Valley: Bigfoot and the Buried A-Frame
- La Conner: Memorial to "Dirty Biter" the Dog
- Littlerock: Mysterious Mima Mounds
- Long Beach: Marsh's Free Museum
- Long Beach: World's Largest Frying Pan
- Long Beach: World's Longest Drivable Beach
- Longview: Nutty Narrows Squirrel Bridge
- Maryhill: Sam Hill's Stonehenge
- Menlo - Raymond: The Pickled Pioneer
- Olympia: Metal Cows
- Richland: CREHST Museum - Atomic Marbles
- Roslyn: Northern Exposure Teevee Town
- Seattle: Archie McPhee Store
- Seattle: Edgewater Inn
- Seattle: Experience Music Project
- Seattle: Flower Shop Elephant
- Seattle: Fremont Troll
- Seattle: Giant Shoe Museum [tips]
- Seattle: Giant Shoe Museum
- Seattle: Hat 'n' Boots
- Seattle: Lenin Statue
- Seattle: Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
- Seattle: Waiting for the Interurban
- Seattle: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
- Silverlake: Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
- Snoqualmie, North Bend: Twin Peaks Waterfall, Twin Peaks Diner, Pies
- Snoqualmie: The Big Log
- Spokane: Garbage-Eating Goat Device [tips]
- Spokane: Marvin Carr's One of a Kind in the World Museum
- Tacoma: Backyard Mosaic Tile Giants
- Tacoma: Bob's Java Jive
- Tacoma: Never Never Land [tips]
- Tacoma: Shrine to Tacoma's Super-Salesman
- Vashon Island: Bicycle Eaten by Tree [tips]
- Walla Walla: Auto Parts Sculptures [tips]
- Walla Walla: Whitman Massacre
- Winlock: World's Largest Egg [Salad of the Gods]
- Zillah: Teapot Dome gas station [tips]
