A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.