This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

Built to replace a house destroyed by a hurricane, this home is made entirely of shipping containers.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."