What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

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

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

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

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

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.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.