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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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.

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

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

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

Rumored to be the famed pirate's lookout tower, this historic stone structure is now just watching for tourists.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

A park where people have been going to feed friendly pigeons since the 18th century

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Vintage neon signs illuminate highway history.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.