An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Become a prohibition rebel.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The magic's in the hole!

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.