Places syntaxx Wants to Go

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Documenting the nationalist movement in Northern Ireland, with an emphasis on the history of political prisoners.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

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

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.