A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

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

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

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.

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

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

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

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Orcas on display and in the water.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.