The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

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

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.