Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

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

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

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

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.