Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

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

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.