This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.