3 Best Sights in Spokane and Eastern Washington, Washington

The entrance to the tree-shaded Cheney campus is marked by the Pillars of Hercules; built in 1915, they include granite from the original Cheney Normal School that was destroyed by fire a few years earlier. Six campus buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. Walk through the EWU Historic District to learn about the university's founding as the state's first institution for training teachers and to see the early-1900 buildings where students lived and studied.

Opened in 1892 as the state's agriculture school, Washington State University today sprawls almost all the way to the Idaho state line. Besides checking out the interesting architecture of 19th century buildings like Bryan Hall with its clocktower that lights up at night and Thompson Hall with its castle-like turrets, a visit to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is a must. If you visit on a weekday, be sure to stop at Ferdinand's for ice cream or the famous Cougar Gold cheese. To park on campus, pick up a parking pass in the Security Building on Wilson Road.

Large, tree-lined lawns surround the many beautiful 19th-century stone and brick structures of the Whitman College campus. The school began as a seminary in 1859 and became a college in 1883.