Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

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

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.