The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

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

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

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

Bright, rebellious indigenous murals dating back to the Spanish Conquest inexplicably cover the walls of this Catholic church.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.