Portland, Oregon
Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden
Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.
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Portland, Oregon
Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Liège, Belgium
This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.
Cologne, Germany
The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Salzburg, Austria
A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.
Vienna, Austria
The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
Menahga, Minnesota
Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.
Silver Bay, Minnesota
This friendly fellow was built to honor an advancement in mineral processing.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.
San Diego, California
L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.
Charlestown, Rhode Island
250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.
Newport, Rhode Island
An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.
Providence, Rhode Island
Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
Fergus Falls, Minnesota
This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Biloxi, Mississippi
A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.
Portland, Oregon
This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.
Portland, Oregon
The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.