A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

America's first wax museum opened in 1948.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Only through the lens of a microscope can visitors see the true treasures inside this museum.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

Built in just a little over a week this preserved bunker was created to protect our most attractive POTUS while he was on vacation.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

See six states, pickled freaks, rocks, and antiques.

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.