A striking eight-story-high obelisk perched on a coastal California cliff.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

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

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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