At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

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

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

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

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.