There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

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.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.