An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.