Augusta, Maine
The First Amendment Museum
Located in the historic home of a newspaper publisher, this museum is dedicated to the Freedom of Speech.
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Augusta, Maine
Located in the historic home of a newspaper publisher, this museum is dedicated to the Freedom of Speech.
Freeport, Maine
Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.
Moultonborough, New Hampshire
This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.
Salem, Massachusetts
A cheeky name, colorful merchandise, and spooky ghost stories
Seattle, Washington
With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Seattle, Washington
Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.
Seattle, Washington
An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Seattle, Washington
This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.
Tukwila, Washington
An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.
Seattle, Washington
Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.
Seattle, Washington
A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.
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
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Leavenworth, Washington
One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.
Anaconda, Montana
A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!
Wallace, Idaho
A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.
Wallace, Idaho
After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.
Wallace, Idaho
The mayor made the declaration in 2004.
Wallace, Idaho
It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.