This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A hidden gem of a museum that lets you search for your own fossils.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

Nature's slip and slide.