The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.