This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

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

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

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

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

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

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

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

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.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

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

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

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

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

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