No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.