A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.