The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The pan man stands as a testament to the functionality of American cast iron cookware.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.