Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

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."

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.