Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

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.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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