La Push, WA

At the mouth of the Quillayute River, past sea stacks and tide pools, one can find Rialto Beach, home to the infamous tree graveyard.

While the beach is mainly known for its striking views of offshore islands known as “sea stacks,” here the remains of grand trees, piled haphazardly atop one another, line the misty shorelines.

Deposited by storms, the uprooted, fallen trees, bleached and scoured bare by the fierce ocean winds, appear quite ghostly. The sand is dark and laden with rocks and stones and a thick white fog, produced from the frothy seas beating against the headlands, seems to permanently hang overhead.