This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

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

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

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

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

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

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

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

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

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

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.