Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Always a new use for this old building.

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

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.