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.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

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

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.