A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.