A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

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 granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.