These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

In Namibia there is an installation that explores the intertwined linguistics and existential beliefs of an imaginary community.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

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.

The magic's in the hole!

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.