This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

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

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

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

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

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

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.