San Francisco
Read MoreSan Francisco cable cars at night by Ghirardelli Square. I've only done the cable car a handful of times since its usually ridiculously busy at the turnaround points. This has got to be one of the few remaining things in the US where they actually let you do something that could be dangerous without signing a waiver or having silly warnings, at least for the folks hanging off the side.
A pod of Pelicans flying in formation overhead. According to Wikipedia, a group of Pelicans is referred to as a pod: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns