This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

This former Union fort commands a fine view of downtown Cape Girardeau and the Mississippi River.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

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

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.