San Diego, California
Unconditional Surrender
A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."
Places I've been
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San Diego, California
A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."
Sacramento, California
Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Savannah, Georgia
The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Kansas City, Missouri
This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.
Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
San Francisco, California
This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.
Norfolk, Virginia
This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.
Pisa, Italy
The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.
Lisse, Netherlands
Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Laramie, Wyoming
The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.
Reno, Nevada
This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
Healdsburg, California
A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.
San Simeon, California
This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Beatty, Nevada
A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.
Knob Noster, Missouri
The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.