Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

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

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

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

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