The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.