A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.