A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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.

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.

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

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

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

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

Hike to the decaying remains of a dream house with a spectacular view.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.