A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

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

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

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

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.