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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.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
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.
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.
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. Jam packed 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Big Catch: Fish With Woman's Breasts
Des Moines, Washington
Mutant horror in a whimsical (or naughty) bronze sculpture of a man and a fish next to the local grocery store.
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.
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.
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. Six squirrel bridges cross the town's streets.
Pickled Pioneer
Menlo, Washington
Go West, Young Cadaver! The place where Willie Keil's journey to "The Promised Land" ended is noted on a large historical marker.
Grave of Jimi Hendrix
Renton, Washington
Final resting place of the legendary rock guitarist is a popular site for music pilgrims.
Lenin Statue
Seattle, Washington
This Fremont sculpture of the Soviet leader would be out of place in any other U.S. community (except Berkeley, of course)....
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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]
- 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: 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: Fish With Woman's Breasts
- Ellensburg: Dick and Jane's Spot
- Elma: Satsop Abandoned Nuclear Plant [tips]
- Everett: Muffler Man - Stevedore Man
- Everett: Flying Saucer with Transporter Beam [tips]
- Forks: Beach Junk Tower and Museum [tips]
- 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
- La Grande: Indian Henry's Grave Monument [tips]
- 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: Pickled Pioneer
- Monroe: The Reptile Zoo [tips]
- Mukilteo: Tour the Boeing Factory
- Oak Harbor: Sidewalk Sea Monster [tips]
- Ocean City: Blue Eyed Surf'n Sasquatches [tips]
- Pomeroy: Muffler Man: Rainbow Man
- 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]
- Renton: Grave of Jimi Hendrix
- Renton: Office Park Stonehenge [tips]
- Richland: USS Triton Sub Surfaces [tips]
- San Juan Island: Cement Mixer Sculptures [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: Giant Shoe Museum
- Seattle: Seattle Underground Tour [tips]
- Seattle: Spite House [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: Hammering Man [tips]
- Seattle: Strange Creatures and Naked Humans [tips]
- Seattle: Naked Trump Statue [tips]
- Sekiu: Rosie: Fish with Legs and Breasts [tips]
- Sequim: Olympic Game Farm [tips]
- Shelton: Muffler Man - Bunyan [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]
- Walla Walla: Museum of Un-Natural History [tips]
- Wenatchee: Eye-Rolling and Winking Indian Billboard [tips]
- Winlock: World's Largest Egg
- Zillah: Teapot Dome Gas Station