For over 75 years, this cute stone statue has warmed the hearts of San Antonio.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

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

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Definitely not a clown bar.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

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

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.