A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.