This museum is dedicated to a Hollywood icon.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

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

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.