This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

From the dishes to the art, this Michelin-starred restaurant orbits around one beloved French melon.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.