Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.