Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This is one really big nut.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Three historic trains run on a half-mile track that features a tunnel.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.

One of the richest places in the United States has a cursed street.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.