This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

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

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

Mexican food and folk art.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.