A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

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

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

Up-close opportunities to see working birds of prey.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.