Washington State History
Bursting with color and covered in spectacular, bell-shaped flowers when in bloom, this evergreen shrub is the state flower of Washington.
Rhododendron
The Aviator tells the story of this man, as he builds his fortune and struggles with increasingly intrusive symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Howard Hughes
Opening on August 17, 1907, this Seattle landmark is of the oldest continuously operated of its kind in the United States.
Pike Place Market
Established by the legislature in the early 1900s, this laboratory was first located in downtown Seattle in the Alaska Building.
Washington State Public Health Laboratories (PHL)
Airing on Nickelodeon from 2007 to 2012, this sitcom starred Miranda Cosgrove as a Seattle teenager who creates her own web show with her BFFs Sam and Freddie.
iCarly
In March 2022, Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill making this sour-sounding racket game the official sport of Washington state.
Pickle ball
The film Dark Waters is based on the true story of this chemical company burying unregulated chemical near at least six public water systems in West Virginia and Ohio; exposing residents through their drinking water.
DuPont
This Pass in Oak Harbor, WA is a strait that separates Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, and shares its name with the act of using an intentional falsehood to mislead someone.
Deception Pass
Located in Ruston and north Tacoma, this EPA Superfund site once boasted the world's largest smokestack. it was demolish on January 17, 1993
ASARCO Smelter site
Entirely filmed in British Columbia, this movie centers around a veteran Green Beret waging a one-man war against his pursuers in the fictitious town of Hope, Washington.
Rambo First Blood
King Olav V of Norway visited this town on Washington's Kitsap Peninsula in 1975, honoring its long-time Norwegian immigrant heritage.
Poulsbo
Erin Brokovich uncovered a company improperly disposing this toxic chemical.
Chromium
This otherwise nondescript wall at the Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA is covered with a sticky substance that traditionally comes from trees and is water soluble, often in people's mouths.
The Gum Wall
Between 1992 and 1993, 602 people from Washington state were sickened from E. Coli Outbreak from this fast food Chain.
Jack in the Box
1898 to 1917 this was an important military stronghold built to protect the Puget Sound. It was also the backdrop of the film, An Officer and a Gentleman staring Richard Gere.
Fort Warden, in Port Townsend, Washington.
An estimated 1 million rodents were killed when a glue pot boiled over on June 6, 1889, which caused this event.
The Great Seattle Fire.
Based in Seattle, teenager Matt Leland (played by Chris O'Donnell) falls in with Casey Roberts (Drew Barrymore). Blinded by infatuation, Matt doesn't initially realize Casey needs specialized help for bipolar disorder.
Mad Love
Washington state is the home to the largest of these transport systems in the United States.
Ferry
On May 18, 1980, 57 people in Washington lost their lives as a result of this natural disaster.
The eruption of Mount Saint Helens
From 1984-1999, this skit-based comedy often starred Bill Nye as the Seattle superhero, "Speed Walker."
Almost Live
Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, the site was home to the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world.
Handford Nuclear Reservation, or Hanford Site
American Samoa was the only organized society on the planet to entirely escape this 20th century pandemic that killed 6571 people in Washington State.
The 1918 Spanish Flu
Tour guides will often tell visitors that a VW bug will fit inside this Washington light fixture.
The rotunda chandelier in the Washington state capitol building.
This current facility was originally established in 1871 as Fort Steilacoom Asylum. It was given its current name in 1915.
Western State Hospital
Taking place in the Cascade Mountains, this 1967 film recorded one of the last river-log drives to occur in the United States. The lead was played by four different cougars.
Charlie the Lonesome Cougar