Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.