This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

The world's largest otter started his life as a high school shop project.

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement.

Nicknamed the 'Minnehaha Bunny,' this bronze sculpture is nine feet long and weighs 1,500 pounds.

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

A palatial art deco restroom.

This colossal reptile celebrates the history of the now-defunct Canadian Turtle Derby.

A rim-made reptile in North Dakota.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

The Real LegoLand.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

The oldest remaining frame residence in Minneapolis.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.