An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

Once designed as a natural history museum, this building is now home to a massive art gallery.

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

The last remaining bottle-shaped kilns in Scotland stand alone in an Edinburgh suburb.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.