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

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

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

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

The magic's in the hole!

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

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

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.