This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.