Three bronze deer sculptures relax along the Scioto Mile.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.