Oakland, California
Lake Merritt's Bonsai Garden
Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.
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Oakland, California
Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.
Oakland, California
The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.
Oakland, California
Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.
San Francisco, California
The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.
San Francisco, California
A monument to the love people have for their pets.
San Francisco, California
Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
San Francisco, California
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
Hanksville, Utah
A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Pocatello, Idaho
A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.
Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Grantsville, Utah
A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.
Herriman, Utah
A replica that won't float away.
Herriman, Utah
Largest man-made excavation on earth!
Idaho City, Idaho
A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.
Cottonwood, Idaho
Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.
Blackfoot, Idaho
This museum glorifies the humble potato.
Richfield, Utah
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Tonopah, Nevada
The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.