Denver, Colorado
Mayan Theatre
One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.
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Denver, Colorado
One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.
Denver, Colorado
A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.
Denver, Colorado
One of the oldest art supply stores in the United States.
Denver, Colorado
A mural and a few historical markers commemorate Denver's once-thriving Chinatown, which was obliterated in a racist riot.
Denver, Colorado
A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.
Denver, Colorado
This sidewalk tribute honors Colorado's great culinary creation.
Denver, Colorado
Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.
Denver, Colorado
In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.
Chicago, Illinois
Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.
Chicago, Illinois
Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.
Chicago, Illinois
Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.
Sayulita, Mexico
This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Seattle, Washington
A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.
Memphis, Tennessee
Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?
Seattle, Washington
The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.
Seattle, Washington
A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Eugene, Oregon
This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.
Porto, Portugal
Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Porto, Portugal
The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.
Porto, Portugal
A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.
Porto, Portugal
Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.