A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.

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

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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