This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

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

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.