Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

In this beloved beach town, a secret seafood haven lies tucked behind a car wash.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

This cheeky restaurant has a serious devotion to lard sculptures.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

This modern tandoor eatery was once a canteen for Soviet farmers.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.