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Mark Twain's cabin.

Sonora, California

Mark Twain's Cabin

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Foster's Big Horn

Rio Vista, California

Foster's Big Horn

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Horsetail Falls.

Yosemite National Park, California

Horsetail Fall's Firefall

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

1950s Brown Derby on Wilshire Boulevard.

Los Angeles, California

Brown Derby

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Gold ore from Witwatersrand

Hartbeespoort, South Africa

Witwatersrand Basin

It's estimated that half of the world's gold was mined from South Africa's "golden arc."

Eiserner Steg

Frankfurt, Germany

Eiserner Steg (Iron Bridge)

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

Heureka Useless Machine

Zurich, Switzerland

Heureka Useless Machine

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Abbey Library of Saint Gall

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Abbey Library of Saint Gall

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

The Bonaventure Hotel.

Los Angeles, California

The Bonaventure Hotel

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Hoodoos from ground level

Kanab, Utah

The Wahweap Hoodoos

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Sculpture of Mike the Headless Chicken.

Fruita, Colorado

'Mike the Headless Chicken' Sculpture

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

The bridge

Pasadena, California

Colorado Street Bridge

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Balancing Rocks!!

Harare, Zimbabwe

Balancing Rocks of the Zimbabwe Dollar

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

The Davis-Schrimpf Seep Field.

Calipatria, California

Davis-Schrimpf Seep Field

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Pretty nice for an infrastructure accident!

Mecca, California

Salton Sea

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Mines Museum of Earth Science

Golden, Colorado

Mines Museum of Earth Science

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

Casa Bonita's Lagoon

Lakewood, Colorado

Casa Bonita

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The lounge.

Lakewood, Colorado

Denver’s Dinosaur Hotel

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Revellers' torches are thrown into the fire

Lewes, England

Lewes Bonfire

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

Brighton City Airport terminal building (interior)

Shoreham-by-Sea, England

Brighton City Airport

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

Musso & Frank Grill, "Oldest Restaurant in Hollywood Since 1919."

Los Angeles, California

Musso and Frank Grill

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The restaurant's collection of "gift certificates."

Agoura Hills, California

The Old Place Restaurant

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

A peaceful, ghost town porch affixed to a glass house

Beatty, Nevada

Tom Kelly's Bottle House

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Train station

Beatty, Nevada

Rhyolite Ghost Town

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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