In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

World's tallest monolithic statue has served as a pilgrimage site since its completion in 993 CE.

This magical place built as an astronomical center starred as a James Bond villain's lair.

The evocative ruins of a 1,000-year-old hill fort lie within a popular tiger reserve.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.