This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.