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

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

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

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

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The smallest country in the world.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.