This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

Sharing the often-overlooked story of America's Black soldiers.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

The site of the largest mass execution in Rhode Island history, haunted by the ghosts of hanged pirates.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.