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Flamingos on Flamingo Island

Las Vegas, Nevada

Flamingo Habitat

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Burning Man 2010

Las Vegas, Nevada

'Bliss Dance'

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Big Edge appearing to defy gravity

Las Vegas, Nevada

The Big Edge

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Aliens welcome visitors to the jerky mothership

Baker, California

Alien Fresh Jerky

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Bunnyhenge

Newport Beach, California

Bunnyhenge

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Weird red landscape in the canyon

Las Vegas, Nevada

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Near the entrance past the gift shop

Portland, Oregon

The Grotto

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An aerial view of the rose garden.

Portland, Oregon

International Rose Test Garden

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

April 2022

Portland, Oregon

The Witch’s Castle

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

English Perennial and Rose Garden

Thousand Oaks, California

Gardens of the World

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Sonic Runway

San Jose, California

Sonic Runway

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

On the way

San Jose, California

Drawbridge

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The tiny park.
Permanently Closed

Oakland, California

'World's Smallest Park'

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.

Olympic Black Power statue

San Jose, California

Olympic Black Power Statue

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The Peralta Adobe

San Jose, California

Peralta Adobe

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

Black Chasm Cavern.

Volcano, California

Black Chasm Cavern

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Mercer Caverns

Murphys, California

Mercer Caverns

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The underground bookstore.

Sonora, California

Legends Books, Antiques & Soda Fountain

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Mark Twain's cabin.

Sonora, California

Mark Twain's Cabin

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

View of the ruins from the hillside. The original stairs would have come down on the far left. The curved edge of the original aquarium and the outline of the diving well are on the right.

San Francisco, California

Ruins of the Sutro Baths

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Lupe the Mammoth

San Jose, California

Lupe the Mammoth

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The mall's generic appearance today gives little hint of its history.

Milpitas, California

Great Mall of Milpitas

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Monopoly in the Park

San Jose, California

Monopoly in the Park

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Cars for scale

Castroville, California

World's Largest Artichoke Statue

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

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