A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

This bronze statue commemorates the strange and beloved mascot of UC Irvine—the only university to be represented by a giant anteater.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

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.

Oldest building in California still in use.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

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

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.