City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.