Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

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

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

Inside, visitors are treated to the rich history of sugar farming and its impact on Hawaiian society.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.