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

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

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.