Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

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.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.