Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An urban laboratory.

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

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

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

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

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

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.