Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

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.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

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