This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.