Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

The other side is actually green.

A blast from the past in central San Diego.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

This monumental sculpture that welcomes visitors to Bethany Beach is a tribute to a regional Nanticoke Indian Tribe leader.

Once used as a deterrent to drinking alcohol.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.