A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

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

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.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

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

Always a new use for this old building.

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

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

What better place to take a seat?