Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.