Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

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

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

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

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

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Orcas on display and in the water.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.