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A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Always a new use for this old building.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

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.

You’ll never see the sky the same way after visiting this art installation in Tempe.

The final resting spot of the Colorado Transportation Department's beloved unofficial mascot.

This unassuming building houses one of the world's most extensive collections of cars created by automotive legend Carroll Shelby.

Catch beautiful views at the graffitied observation deck on this mountain top.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.