Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

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

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

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

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.