Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.