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

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

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

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

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

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

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.