A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

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

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

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

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.