A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

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

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.