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

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

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

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

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This restored opera house is named after a soprano known for tragic romance, exile, and a truly uncomfortable wedding.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.