One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.