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Lightning Cage: Spark Museum of Electrical Invention
Bellingham, Washington
In the Lightning Cage, tourists can sit while being bombarded with electric bolts from a Tesla Coil.
Grand Coulee Dam Laser Light Show
Coulee Dam, Washington
Nightly laser performance on water cascading down the face of the dam, the largest laser light show in the world.
John's Beachcombing Museum
Forks, Washington
John Anderson has picked up tons of beach junk since 1976, everything from false teeth to pieces of jet airliners.
Historic Nuclear B Reactor
Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Washington
Welcome to the Cathedral of Bomb, where boron balls and tons of river rock might stop a nuclear meltdown.
Bigfoot and the Buried A-Frame
Kid Valley, Washington
On the way to sometimes-cranky volcano Mount St. Helens, stop to admire a very 28-ft. tall statue of Bigfoot and a home half-buried in volcanic mud.
Marsh's Free Museum
Long Beach, Washington
Enduring beachfront gift shop/museum is the home of Jake the Alligator Man and Morris the Cat -- both stuffed. Full of oddities.
Sam Hill's Stonehenge
Maryhill, Washington
This Stonehenge is built of solid reinforced concrete, the American way, not like England's crumbling pile of rocks.
Hat n' Boots
Seattle, Washington
Famous landmark south of Seattle, a former cowboy-themed gas station built in 1954 shaped like a stetson and a pair of boots.
The Fremont Troll
Seattle, Washington
A giant concrete troll has been lurking under the north end of the Aurora bridge and snacking on children and cars since 1990.
Archie McPhee Catalog Store
Seattle, Washington
Novelty item catalog store is also a museum of the weird.
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
Seattle, Washington
Souvenir shop packed to the rafters with animal freaks, oddities, and mummy love couple Sylvia and Sylvester.
Space Needle
Seattle, Washington
Pride of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, and still a popular place to look down upon the city.
Yard Bird Statues
Chehalis, Washington
The goofy Yard Birds are cartoon mascot leftovers of a defunct chain store.
The Codger Pole
Colfax, Washington
Sixty-five-foot tall chain saw sculpture commemorates a 1988 high school football rematch -- played fifty years after the first game by the same participants.
Big Catch: Half-Woman, Half-Fish
Des Moines, Washington
Mutant horror in a whimsical (or scandalous) bronze sculpture of a man and a fish next to the local grocery store.
Dick and Jane's Spot
Ellensburg, Washington
Folk art environment is a colorful riot of bicycle wheel reflector sculptures, bottle cap tesserae, telephone pole heads studded with nails.
Muffler Man - Stevedore Man
Everett, Washington
The Stevedore Muffler Man, a 20-ft. fiberglass giant, overlooks the Sound from the top of a building.
Dinosaur Town With Volcano
Granger, Washington
Dinosaurs infest every corner of Granger, a town that in millions of years has never been home to a real dinosaur.
World's Largest Frying Pan
Long Beach, Washington
It was the World's Largest when it was forged in 1941, and remains a classic Roadside photo-op.
Nutty Narrows - Squirrel Bridges
Longview, Washington
One town's engineered solution to traffic fatalities among the local squirrel population. Seven squirrel bridges now cross the town's streets.
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
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- Aberdeen: Charlie Choker, Big Mascot [tips]
- Allyn: Largest Collection of Chainsaw Carvings [tips]
- Arlington: Walk-Thru Stump, Former Drive-Thru [tips]
- Ashford: Ex Nihilo: Recycled Spirits of Iron [tips]
- Auburn: Giant Crow with French Fries [tips]
- Bellingham: Lightning Cage: Spark Museum of Electrical Invention
- Burlington: Children's Church - Ark-Shaped [tips]
- Centralia: Shady Lady Bordello Museum [tips]
- Chehalis: Historical Yardbird [tips]
- Chehalis: Yard Bird Statues
- Colfax: The Codger Pole
- Concrete: Welcome to Concrete: Silo Park [tips]
- Cougar: Ape Cave Lava Tube [tips]
- Coulee Dam: Grand Coulee Dam Laser Light Show
- Des Moines: Big Catch: Half-Woman, Half-Fish
- Ellensburg: Dick and Jane's Spot
- Elma: Satsop Abandoned Nuclear Plant [tips]
- Everett: Muffler Man - Stevedore Man
- Everett: Flying Saucer With Transporter Beam
- Forks: John's Beachcombing Museum
- Granger: Dinosaur Town With Volcano
- Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Historic Nuclear B Reactor
- Index: Statue - Friendly Bigfoot [tips]
- Issaquah: Buddy Holly's Bus [tips]
- Keyport: Naval Undersea Museum [tips]
- Kid Valley: Bigfoot and the Buried A-Frame
- Lind: Combine Demolition Derby [tips]
- Long Beach: World's Largest Frying Pan
- Long Beach: Marsh's Free Museum
- Long Beach: World's Largest Spitting Clam [tips]
- Longview: Nutty Narrows - Squirrel Bridges
- Maryhill: Sam Hill's Stonehenge
- Menlo: The Pickled Pioneer
- Monroe: The Reptile Zoo [tips]
- Oak Harbor: Sidewalk Sea Monster [tips]
- Ocean City: Blue Eyed Surf'n Sasquatches [tips]
- Olga: Skeleton in Old Car, and More [tips]
- Pomeroy: Muffler Man: Rainbow Man
- Pomeroy: Uniroyal Gal with Tattoo [tips]
- Port Orchard: Hobbit Hut [tips]
- Poulsbo: 12-Foot-Tall Concrete Viking
- Pullman: Real Grizzly Bears [tips]
- Puyallup: Muffler Man - Bunyan [tips]
- Raymond: Town of Metal People
- Raymond: Willapa Seaport Museum [tips]
- Raymond: Northwest Carriage Museum [tips]
- Renton: Grave of Jimi Hendrix
- Richland: USS Triton Sub Surfaces [tips]
- Seattle: Hat n' Boots
- Seattle: The Fremont Troll
- Seattle: Lenin Statue
- Seattle: Archie McPhee Catalog Store
- Seattle: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
- Seattle: Aurora Elephant
- Seattle: Big Japanese Robot
- Seattle: Giant Shoe Museum
- Seattle: Seattle Underground Tour [tips]
- Seattle: Spite House [tips]
- Seattle: World's Fair Monorail [tips]
- Seattle: Space Needle
- Seattle: The Gum Wall
- Seattle: Museum of Pop Culture
- Seattle: Fremont Rocket [tips]
- Seattle: Statue of Viking Leif Erickson [tips]
- Seattle: Submarine Relics: The Fin Project
- Seattle: Hammering Man [tips]
- Seattle: Strange Creatures and Naked Humans [tips]
- Sekiu: Rosie: Fish with Legs and Breasts [tips]
- Sequim: Olympic Game Farm [tips]
- Snoqualmie: The Big Log
- Snoqualmie: Twin Peaks TV Waterfall
- Spokane: Garbage Goat of the Welding Nun
- Spokane: Milk Bottle Building #1 [tips]
- Spokane: Milk Bottle Building #2 [tips]
- Spokane: Giant Red Wagon [tips]
- Spokane: Fallen Astronaut Hero
- Tacoma: Bob's Java Jive: Giant Coffee Pot
- Tacoma: Shrine to Tacoma's Super-Salesman
- Toppenish: Yakima Nation Museum and Teepees [tips]
- Tukwila: Walk-Thru Space Shuttle
- Vancouver: Wendy the Welder - Striding Cubist Lady Worker Statue
- Vancouver: Devil-ish Little Things Museum
- Vantage: Ginkgo Gem Shop Dinosaurs
- Vashon: Chainsaw Schizophrenic Statue [tips]
- Vashon Island: Bicycle Eaten by Tree [tips]
- Waitsburg: Orchestra Barn [tips]
- Walla Walla: Museum of Un-Natural History [tips]
- Winlock: World's Largest Egg
- Zillah: Teapot Dome Gas Station