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The refurbished gas station

McLean, Texas

1929 Phillips 66 Station

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

The U-Drop Inn and Tower Station.

Shamrock, Texas

U-Drop Inn

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Earthships

El Prado, New Mexico

Earthships

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

New Plymouth

New Plymouth, Idaho

Horseshoe-Shaped Town

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

View of Face Rock.

Bandon, Oregon

Face Rock

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

The tyrannosaurus rex greets visitors.

Port Orford, Oregon

Prehistoric Gardens

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The shipwrecked Mary D. Hume and the Patterson Bridge of Highway 101.

Gold Beach, Oregon

The Wreck of the Mary D. Hume

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

Nobuo Fujita's Sword

Brookings, Oregon

Nobuo Fujita's Sword

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

Rolling hills surround the site.

Shandon, California

James Dean Memorial Junction

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

SS Palo Alto, the cement ship at Seacliff State Beach

Aptos, California

SS Palo Alto

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

William Randolph Hearst's private castle.

San Simeon, California

Hearst Castle

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

St. George Reef Lighthouse prior to being decommissioned

Crescent City, California

St. George Reef Lighthouse

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Battery Point Light at high tide

Crescent City, California

Battery Point Light

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

This coastal "farm" is no farm at all

Klamath, California

Klamath River Radar Station B71

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Fern Canyon at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

Orick, California

Fern Canyon

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Duane Flatmo's Extreme Makeover crosses the Bay during 2005's Grand Championship

Arcata, California

Kinetic Grand Championship

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

An exterior shot of the Carson Mansion.

Eureka, California

The Carson Mansion

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Romano Gabriel Wooden Sculpture Garden

Eureka, California

Romano Gabriel Wooden Sculpture Garden

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

Duluwat/Tolowot Marker

Eureka, California

Duluwat Island Plaque

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Avenue of the Giants

Humboldt County, California

Avenue of the Giants

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

Made from a Redwood Trunk

Myers Flat, California

The Travel-Log

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

Hobbiton, USA

Phillipsville, California

Hobbiton, USA

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

The Enchanted Forest

Whitethorn, California

Enchanted Forest

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Confusion Hill

Piercy, California

Confusion Hill

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

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