Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

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

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

The man who wasn't there.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.