A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

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

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.