World's largest Christmas store.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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