San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.