A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

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

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

This futuristic folk sculpture park sits along a peaceful stretch of rural North Carolina roadway.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.