The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

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."

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."