A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This is one really big nut.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.