This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

Six miles off the coast of Key West, a former military transport ship is now one of the largest artificial reefs in the world.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.