Seattle, Washington
Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop
This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.
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Seattle, Washington
This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Seattle, Washington
This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
Berlin, Germany
A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.
Dresden, Germany
The bridge that cost Germany a World Heritage Site.
Berlin, Germany
A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.
Erfurt, Germany
Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.
Berlin, Germany
For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.
Munich, Germany
This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.
Berlin, Germany
An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.
Zweibrücken, Germany
A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.
Alexandria, Virginia
Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.
Centreville, Virginia
This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.
Swift Run, Virginia
On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Austinville, Virginia
This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.
Chesapeake, Virginia
This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.
Brandy Station, Virginia
This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.
Bedford, Virginia
This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.
Richmond, Virginia
The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.
Ashburn, Virginia
The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.