A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

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.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

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

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.