One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

A shrine to the missionary who first brought Islam to China.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

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

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.