Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

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

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

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

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.

The bridge that cost Germany a World Heritage Site.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.