A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

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

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

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

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

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

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Antiques by the Bay.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.