This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

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

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

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

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

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

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

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

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.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.