Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.