This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.