This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

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

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

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

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

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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