A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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 focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.