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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

An urban laboratory.

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

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.