Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Here be dragons.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

This 1920s railway depot is now home to two unique museums complete with a miniature train ride.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.