This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

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.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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

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

The longest-covered bridge in the state of Maryland.

This covered bridge was used by both Union and Confederate troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

A local prank turned town icon.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.