A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

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.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

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

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.