Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

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.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.