Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

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."

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

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

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

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.