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Both the cocktails and the dive bar vibes are immaculate at this Mid-City watering hole.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

This historic bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island across whirlpool-filled waters.

Tucked away in Seward Park is Seattle’s only old-growth forest.

Collection of still-functioning printing presses from the 18th to 20th centuries.

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

Thousands of railroad artifacts are housed in one of the last remaining mission revival style train depots in the South.

Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

Built from one couple’s vast personal collection, this free museum showcases a century’s worth of state-sponsored agitprop.

These split boulders mark equinoxes and solstices along the Seattle skyline.

A 2,000-foot rainbow-painted bike path marks Toronto’s historic LGBTQ+ beach.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

This historic hotel was once home to Henry David Thoreau and rumored to be haunted by ghosts of fallen soldiers from the American Revolution.