A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.