Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.