A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.