Places Edited by MikeInSanFrancisco

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

The two massive guns that defended Cartagena Bay.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

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

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

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

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

Two large posteriors in one giant statue.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.