800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

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

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.