Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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

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.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

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

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

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.