Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

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

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.