Elko, Nevada
White King
The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.
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Elko, Nevada
The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.
Tonopah, Nevada
This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.
Winnemucca, Nevada
Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants
Baker, Nevada
This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.
Austin, Nevada
Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.
Whistler, British Columbia
Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.
North Vancouver, British Columbia
This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.
Mitchell, Oregon
Make it an offering.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.
Antelope, Oregon
Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.
Goldendale, Washington
A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.
La Push, Washington
A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.
Port Orford, Oregon
A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.
Olympia, Washington
The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.
Davis, California
This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.
London, England
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.
Wagin, Australia
Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Antarctica
At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.