A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

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

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

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

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

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.