This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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.

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.