At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

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

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

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

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.

The other side is actually green.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.