A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.