A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The smallest country in the world.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

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.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

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

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

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.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.