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

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

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

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

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

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

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

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

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

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A land of debatable treasure.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.