Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.