A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

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

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

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.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.

Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.