Places Edited by knoxium

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.