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

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue 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.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

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."

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.