The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.