This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

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

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

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

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.