The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."