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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

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

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

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

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.