Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

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

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

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

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.

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

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

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Right next to departures—how convenient!

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.