Communities around Oahu offer up a diversity of lifestyles, historic sites, attractions and retail establishments.

We decided, with StreetWise, to take you on a road trip around the island, highlighting streets in 10 areas. Then we focused on several points of interest on those streets.

The sections of streets we wrote about might be two blocks or two miles long, but they all have something others don't—a unique sense of place.

  Kuhio Avenue
Waialae Avenue
East Manoa Road
Beretania Street
Keeaumoku Street
Hotel Street
Waipahu Street
California Avenue
Kamehameha Highway
Uluniu Street

Walking Tour
Columnist Charles Memminger takes readers on a tour of a 2.5-mile loop in Lanikai that boasts come wacky mailboxes.