Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.