Long Beach, WA

When the Lewis and Clark expedition reached the Pacific shore in the future state of Washington in November of 1805, Clark took a walk along the beach. In his journal he wrote, "I saw a Sturgeon which had been thrown on Shore and left by the tide 10 feet in length." 200 years later, sculptor Jim Demetro decided to immortalize that moment in bronze. He finished the fish -- which weighs half a ton -- and then the project ran out of money. Scrambling, he managed to cobble together enough funds to pay for his bronze statue of Clark. "The sturgeon itself looked a little lonely," he said at the time.

Both statues were unveiled on June 22, 2005 on the supposed spot of the Clark-fish encounter.