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

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

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

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.