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Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

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

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.