A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

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

The spur that wouldn’t die.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.