The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.