California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Two side-by-side historic and closed cemeteries.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

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

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

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

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

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

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.