This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

The lobby of this hotel near the U.S.-Mexico border features a stained-glass mural that measures 42 feet long and 6 feet tall.

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Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This striking church was built from a Frank Lloyd Wright design more than a decade after the master architect's death.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.