This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.