This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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

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

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

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

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.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.