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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.