In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

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.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Artistic Oasis in Industrial Ballard.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

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

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.