The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

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

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

Orcas on display and in the water.

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

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

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

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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 beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."