This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

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

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

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.

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

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

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

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

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

Dating back to the second century, vestiges of prehispanic mural paintings are found in this underground palace.

This archeological site hidden behind Teotihuacán's pyramids shelters 1600-year-old murals.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

A striking depiction of Teotihuacan's mysterious "Spider Woman."

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.