A place like gnome other.

It's a memorial to the beloved, ugly carpet that adorned the Portland airport (PDX) for 30 years.

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

It is the oldest remaining stairway William Penn created to give Philadelphia citizens access to the port area.

Once a vital asset for Southeast Alaska’s timber industry and the backdrop for the gritty 1954 film noir classic Cry Vengeance, the Connell Lake dam now stands as a tragic yet scenic barrier blocking vital fish passage.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

The entire history of Mack Trucking Company in one place along with vintage and experimental vehicles, movie props, and engineering archives from over 100 of building vehicles.

As the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, these halls contain everything from dinosaur bones to biological samples collected by Lewis and Clark.

This is Bremen’s oldest historic district, famous for its labyrinth of narrow medieval alleys lined with tiny, colorful 15th-century houses that resemble beads on a rope.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

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

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

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