Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

These precariously placed ruins harken back to a 13th-century castle.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

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

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.