An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

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

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.