The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

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

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.