This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

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

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

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

Always a new use for this old building.

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

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Roman-style pizza al taglio arrives here with magnificent, crackly crust.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

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