Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The former headquarters of a leader in the Mexican Revolution, and the site of an often-reproduced image.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

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

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

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.