Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Dating back to the second century, vestiges of prehispanic mural paintings are found in this underground palace.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

The now-public home of a renowned art collector is full of unique pieces from viceregal and 19th-century Mexico.

World's largest Christmas store.

This museum was once the home of industry titan Matilda Dodge Wilson.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.