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Places this traveler has marked as been there.

Mrs Mallard and her entire brood.

Boston, Massachusetts

Make Way for Ducklings Statue

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The Earl of Sandwich
Permanently Closed

Boston, Massachusetts

The Earl of Sandwich

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Edgar Allan Poe Square

Boston, Massachusetts

Edgar Allan Poe Square

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Mapparium Globe

Boston, Massachusetts

Mapparium Globe

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard

Waterbury, Vermont

Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

It sits behind chain link and barbed wire

Goleta, California

Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gas Station

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Tesla Coil

Los Angeles, California

Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery

San Simeon, California

Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

William Randolph Hearst's private castle.

San Simeon, California

Hearst Castle

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The Japanese Tea Garden.

San Francisco, California

Japanese Tea Garden

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Forestiere Underground Gardens, Fresno, CA, 7/13/2019

Fresno, California

Forestiere Underground Gardens

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Bonneville Salt Flats / Bonneville Speedway

Wendover, Utah

Bonneville Salt Flats / Bonneville Speedway

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Metaphor: The Tree of Utah

Wendover, Utah

Metaphor: The Tree of Utah

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

The old gasification plant in Gas Works Park, Seattle

Seattle, Washington

Gas Works Park

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

Gum Wall window ledge

Seattle, Washington

Gum Wall

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Fremont Troll

Seattle, Washington

Fremont Troll

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

USS Iowa - now relocated to LA

Benicia, California

Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Paul Bunyan Statue

Portland, Oregon

Paul Bunyan Statue

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Voodoo Doughnuts

Portland, Oregon

Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel

The magic's in the hole!

Vulcan's Starship FX6-1995-A, replica of the Starship Enterprise, named after Vulcan Airport's designation FX6.

Vulcan, Alberta

Vulcan

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

Complete with a plastic Steve Buscemi leg

Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo Wood Chipper

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

Devils Tower

Devils Tower, Wyoming

Devils Tower

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Hot Springs Mammoth Site

Hot Springs, South Dakota

Mammoth Site

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Carhenge from the front

Alliance, Nebraska

Carhenge

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

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