A Bibliophile's Dream.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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

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

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.

A perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric time.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.