This fine-dining restaurant features native New Zealand ingredients and Māori cooking.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

Definitely not a clown bar.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

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

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.