Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Bizarre Cavern.