This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.