This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

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

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

The last of its kind in the country.