Places Cowshow Wants to Go

Children's author May Gibbs's beloved stories about the tiny, human-like "Gumnut Babies" are immortalized in bronze.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

The religious shrine that Pablo Escobar's men would allegedly visit before completing a mission.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

The oldest house of worship in Palm Beach has a wonderful tropical garden.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

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

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

Where Nor'easters go to die.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.