The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

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

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

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.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

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

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.