Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

The former home of the woman who successfully fought to integrate restaurants in Washington, D.C.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

A terrace reminiscent of Rome's Spanish Steps is tucked away in a little park in Washington, D.C.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.

One man's love of natural beauty led to the creation of this hidden granite monument.