The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

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

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

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