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

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

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

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

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