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

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

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

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

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

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