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.

Once a year, ambitious surfers can ride the world's largest river.

This unique bird reserve sits within an important fragment of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.

The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.

This breathtaking national park is one of the best places to see the weird and wonderful giant anteater in the wild.

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human.

This neo-Gothic monastery offers a rare chance to witness the unique maned wolf right up close.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."