The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The middle finger of modernity.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.