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A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.