A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

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

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

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

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

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

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.