Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A poignant memorial that traces two hundred years of German history.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Site of a tragedy on the Oregon Trail.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

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

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.

A narrow fjord-like lake, the third-deepest in the United States, runs for over 50 miles into the Cascades of Washington state.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

Orcas on display and in the water.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

This impressively large collection includes crackers shaped like Jimmy Carter, Mickey Mouse, and more.