A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.