This remote island, home to the easternmost point in Denmark, once hosted pirates and a military fortress.

The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

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

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

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

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

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

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

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

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

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.