This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

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

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.