The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

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

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Haven for steampunks.