One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Always a new use for this old building.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

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

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

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

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.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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.

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