This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Crafted by one of the first makers of stoneware in England.

A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

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

Definitely not a clown bar.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.