No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.

In 1396, two Scottish clans that had been violently feuding for centuries finally faced off in a bloody battle in this park.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Andrew Carnegie funded the building of almost 3,000 libraries across the world, this was the first.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.