Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.