Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

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

The magic's in the hole!

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

This interactive sculpture allows visitors to leave a message in case a friend passes by.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.