Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.