Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

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

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland's second largest island emit an entrancing sound.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.