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

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

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

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.