Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

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

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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