Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A monument dedicated to three unlikely visitors to North America.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

Large metal sculptures spread throughout an open landscape.

With beautiful views and every detail perfectly considered, one of the geniuses of modern architecture built himself the perfect home.

W.C. Handy, sometimes known as the Father of the Blues, drew inspiration for one of his biggest hits from this spot.

Pay your respects at this juke joint founded by a blues legend of the Mississippi Delta.

Swing by this iconic record store find out what’s going on in Clarksdale’s live music scene.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

Steps from the site where Robert Johnson purportedly sold his soul to the Devil, you'll find this century-old barbecue joint.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

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.