Seattle, Washington
Blue Moon Tavern
This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.
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Seattle, Washington
This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.
Seattle, Washington
An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.
Seattle, Washington
Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.
Seattle, Washington
With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.
Richmond, Virginia
A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.
Richmond, Virginia
In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.
Heroica Matamoros, Mexico
A "gateway" into Mexico's northern border, represented by an abstract red tower.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:
Negril, Jamaica
Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.
Sedona, Arizona
The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.
Richmond, Virginia
Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.
Los Angeles, California
Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.
Los Angeles, California
A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.
Richmond, Virginia
A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.
Richmond, Virginia
Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.
Logan, Ohio
Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.
New York, New York
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
New York, New York
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
Mechanicsville, Virginia
The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.
Brooklyn, New York
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
Richmond, Virginia
This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.
Richmond, Virginia
This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.