This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

The magic's in the hole!

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.