This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

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

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

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

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

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

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

The birthplace of professional hockey on the shores of Portage Lake.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.