This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.