On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This memorial complex contains several mass graves for victims of the Siege of Leningrad.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

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

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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