This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.