A monument to the King's final show, complete with a time capsule.

On the grounds of this study, Lew Wallace composed "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" and many other works.

A set of tall pillars and alcove-like rooms that are significant to the Miami people of Indiana.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

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.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.