A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A colossal concrete penguin announces this Montana town as the coldest spot in America. But is it really?

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

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

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.