Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

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

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

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

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

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

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

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

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

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

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A magnificent waterfall nestled in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The potters' quarter is packed with artists sculpting clay gods with mud from the sacred Ganges river.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.