An ode to the famous Las Vegas signage.

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.