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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

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

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

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

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.