Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

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

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

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

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.