This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.