Places Noble Keyser Wants to Go

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

One of only two sites in the United States containing the remains of Buddha.

A tribute to a unique bike race that takes place every year.

The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

This bronze statue commemorates the strange and beloved mascot of UC Irvine—the only university to be represented by a giant anteater.

Once a giant oak that served as the region's post office.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.