Seattle, Washington
Seattle's Giant Sequoia Tree
This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.
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Seattle, Washington
This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.
Seattle, Washington
This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.
Seattle, Washington
This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.
Seattle, Washington
An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.
Portland, Oregon
A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.
Portland, Oregon
Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Portland, Oregon
Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.
Portland, Oregon
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
Portland, Oregon
The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Portland, Oregon
The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.
Portland, Oregon
A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.
Portland, Oregon
Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.
Portland, Oregon
This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.
Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
San Francisco, California
A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.
San Francisco, California
Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.
San Francisco, California
A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.
San Francisco, California
The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.
San Francisco, California
This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.
San Francisco, California
An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.