An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.