Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

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

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

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

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

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