The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

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

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.