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

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.