The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

Tiny artwork tucked within glass letterboxes form this hidden gem of an art gallery.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

The decommissioned station is now a museum packed with antiquated hydroelectricity artifacts.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.