Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

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

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

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

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.