Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."