Seattle, Washington
Fort Lawton
This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.
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Seattle, Washington
This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.
Mukilteo, Washington
A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.
Seattle, Washington
This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.
Toppenish, Washington
Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.
Seattle, Washington
A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.
Seattle, Washington
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
Weehawken, New Jersey
The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.
Tucson, Arizona
Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.
Munich, Germany
A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.
New York, New York
The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.
Berlin, Germany
Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.
Fitzgerald, Georgia
The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.
Buffalo, New York
The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.
Huelva, Spain
This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
Klamath County, Oregon
The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.
Renton, Washington
The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.