An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The last of its kind in the country.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.