San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

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

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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