The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Half of a house.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.