Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A replica that won't float away.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.