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42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

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

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.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.