This vast collection of smoking pipes from across the world spans centuries.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

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

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

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

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

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.