Places permissiontochill Wants to Go

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

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

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

The Gaudí-inspired building that was the start of Terrassenc modernism.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”