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

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

One of the oldest seagoing boats in the world can be found at the Dover Museum.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

This bronze statue was dedicated to a 1966 Beatles hit.

This whimsical public art installation is a unique homage to Liverpool's industrial heritage.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St. John's Precinct and Market.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

One of several Lilliputian portals that are ready to transport passengers to other dimensions, if they can find them.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.