A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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

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

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

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

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

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

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

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.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.