A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

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

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Orcas on display and in the water.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Where Nor'easters go to die.