A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

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

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.