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One of the Peabody Ducks takes the stage.

Memphis, Tennessee

Peabody Hotel Duck March

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Entrance on Union Ave, just around the corner from Beale Street

Memphis, Tennessee

Sun Studio

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Popeye Character Trail

Chester, Illinois

Popeye Character Trail

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Lower Lower Wacker Drive.

Chicago, Illinois

Lower Lower Wacker Drive

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

As there are no street signs on Carroll Avenue, people spray paint both locations and overhead cross streets to keep others from getting lost

Chicago, Illinois

Carroll Avenue

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

The illusive (and mythical) Piasa Bird

Alton, Illinois

Piasa Bird

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

The true-to-size statue of Robert Wadlow.

Alton, Illinois

World’s Tallest Man Statue

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Treasure Island as seen from Yerba Buena Island

San Francisco, California

Treasure Island

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The original Bay Bridge Troll

Oakland, California

Bay Bridge Troll

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Pier 22½ & the SFFD Fire Boats

San Francisco, California

Pier 22½ & the SFFD Fire Boats

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Palace of Fine Arts

San Francisco, California

Palace of Fine Arts

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The cemetery in 2014

San Francisco, California

Presidio Pet Cemetery

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Battery Chamberlin

San Francisco, California

Battery Chamberlin

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Mile Rocks Light

San Francisco, California

Mile Rocks Light

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

Hoppers Hands in San Francisco Giants orange in 2018.

San Francisco, California

Hoppers Hands

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Alcatraz from the Bay 2012

San Francisco, California

Alcatraz Island

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

40 trees line the avenue, and you have to drive around them

Larkspur, California

Dolliver Park

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

Gates Co-op Houseboat Community
Permanently Closed

Sausalito, California

Gates Co-op Houseboat Community

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

The Enchanted Forest

Whitethorn, California

Enchanted Forest

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A car mid-drive through the tree.

Leggett, California

Chandelier Tree

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Confusion Hill

Piercy, California

Confusion Hill

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Hobbiton, USA

Phillipsville, California

Hobbiton, USA

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Avenue of the Giants

Humboldt County, California

Avenue of the Giants

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Abigail's Elegant Victorian Mansion
Permanently Closed

Eureka, California

Abigail's Elegant Victorian Mansion

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

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