A devilish mask still mocks a king’s rumored love nest across the street.

A granite memorial to three men swallowed by the Arctic—Andrée, Strindberg and Fraenkel—explorers that attempted one of the most ambitious (and disastrous) North Pole expeditions in history.

These crypt figures are said to be the giant and his family, turned to stone mid-rampage

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

The spiciest place in town - where one can and may cry

The largest stretch of the Berlin Wall is right on top of the former SS headquarters

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

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

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

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

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

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

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

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.