Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

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The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.