In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

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

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.

Something about this Brazilian city is slightly askew... literally.