A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.