Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

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

Home to a monument dedicated to the American Rock duo along with a collection of music memorabilia.

View Kentucky's beauty and history from the perspective of painter John James Audubon, author and illustrator.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.