This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

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

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.