Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

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

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.