A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.