McLean, Texas
1929 Phillips 66 Station
This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.
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McLean, Texas
This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.
Shamrock, Texas
Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
New Plymouth, Idaho
New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.
Bandon, Oregon
According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.
Port Orford, Oregon
A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.
Gold Beach, Oregon
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Brookings, Oregon
As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.
Shandon, California
A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.
Aptos, California
This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Crescent City, California
A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.
Crescent City, California
This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.
Klamath, California
These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Arcata, California
Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
Eureka, California
Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.
Eureka, California
A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Myers Flat, California
A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.
Phillipsville, California
A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.
Whitethorn, California
A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.
Piercy, California
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.