A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

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

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.