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

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

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

This covert museum showcases booties worn by a rescue dog and slippers owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

This Aztec structure remained hidden until the demolition of a supermarket exposed the lost temple.

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.