The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.