Las Vegas, Nevada
Bugsy Siegel Monument
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
Las Vegas, Nevada
These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.
Santa Barbara, California
The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.
Bend, Oregon
The world's last remaining store of its kind.
Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Vancouver, Washington
The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
New York, New York
Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
New York, New York
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Topanga, California
An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.
Antelope, Oregon
Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.
Seattle, Washington
The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Friday Harbor, Washington
This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.