Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A replica that won't float away.

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.