Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

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

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

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

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

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

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

First flying reptile discovered in British Columbia was for years forgotten in a cabinet.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

Constructed from the ruins of a former glass factory, this park incorporates the old with the new.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.