City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Because there's no place like home.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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