A building so large that it has its own weather.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

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

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.