Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.