Places agavrush Wants to Go

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

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

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A Buddhist retreat built on more than 100 acres of California Redwood forest.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.