A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

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.

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

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

Groups of prehistoric tombs that dot the mountains of northern Oman.

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.