Edison, New Jersey
Menlo Park Lightbulb
A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.
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Edison, New Jersey
A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Seattle, Washington
Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.
Seattle, Washington
This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.
Seattle, Washington
A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.
Seattle, Washington
Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.
Seattle, Washington
42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.
Seattle, Washington
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.
Seattle, Washington
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
Seattle, Washington
A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.
Seattle, Washington
This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Seattle, Washington
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
East Lansing, Michigan
The plants form a living library and laboratory for researchers and students at Michigan State University.
East Lansing, Michigan
This experiment in the lifespan of seeds will take a century before it is complete.
Lansing, Michigan
Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.
Lansing, Michigan
This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.