San Francisco, California
The Old Ship Saloon
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
Places I've been
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San Francisco, California
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Chumkopó, Mexico
A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.
San Francisco, California
Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Hong Kong
A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.
San Francisco, California
A miniature view of the park, caught in time.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Stonington, Connecticut
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
Calistoga, California
A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."
Vancouver, British Columbia
This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.
Banff, Alberta
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
Drumheller, Alberta
Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.
Drumheller, Alberta
As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.
San Francisco, California
This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
Hillsborough, California
This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.
Xiulin Township, Taiwan
A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.
Sausalito, California
A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.
Olema, California
'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.
San Francisco, California
These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.