Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.