Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

Founded in 1873 to support the needs of the gold mines flourishing nearby, this is the last water-powered foundry in the United States.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

This cabin once belonged to one of California's original settlers.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.