Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.