Juneau, Alaska
DuPont Explosives Depot Ruins
The crumbling remains of Juneau's explosives storage site.
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Juneau, Alaska
The crumbling remains of Juneau's explosives storage site.
Skagway, Alaska
This "Alaska-style" billboard is over 100 years old.
Granada, Spain
Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.
Cádiz, Spain
The world's most elegant power lines.
Ensenada, Mexico
A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.
San Diego, California
A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
This bridge over the River Cuale leads to a neighborhood that was once an escape for Hollywood's elite.
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.
Benicia, California
The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.
Lafayette, California
Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.
Alamo, California
Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.
Walnut Creek, California
This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.
Castroville, California
It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."
Pacific Grove, California
Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.
Pacific Grove, California
The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.
Monterey, California
Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.
Monterey, California
One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.
Monterey, California
Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.
Imlay, Nevada
The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."
Woolsey, Nevada
A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.
Worden, Montana
The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.
Cody, Wyoming
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Wilson, Wyoming
This 35-foot troll in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was made by the world’s leading recycling artist as part of a global fairytale.