Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Set sail on a small scale.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

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

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

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.