The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

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

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

The former home of silent film star Harry Carry.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

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

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

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.