This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

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

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.