Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

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

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

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

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

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