A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

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

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

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

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

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.