This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

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.

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.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.