A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

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.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

This sidewalk tribute honors Colorado's great culinary creation.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

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

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.