The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.