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

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.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.