The San Juan Islands are a cluster of small, wooded islands off the coast of Washington

state, just across the water from Vancouver Island.

The western most of those small plots of land is San Juan Island itself.

It has a population of less than 7,000 residents and has the welcoming feeling of a small

quiet town.

Seriously, this place is quiet.

The most exciting thing most people can think of about their home is that one of the residents

is Lisa Moretti, a retired female WF wrestler.

But on the northern tip of the island, just beyond Roche Harbor and the resort there,

is a road that leads into the woods.

What is hidden in those trees away from the prime is of tourists and residents alike

is something so unusual, so out of the ordinary and bizarre, that it practically begs for

a visit.

Traveling down the long dirt road that runs into the heart of the forest like a withered

artery will bring you to an iron archway mounted on stone pillars.

The words, after glow vista, are woven into the metalwork.

Beyond that, deeper into the woods is a series of stone stairs that lead up a small hill.

And it's the thing at the top of the hill that immediately catches the eye of every visitor

without question.

It's an open air rotunda, a ring of tall stone pillars standing on a flat circular limestone

base.

They're connected at the top by a thick, maltees archways, but nothing covers the rotunda.

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