The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.