This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

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

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

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

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.