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

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

An urban laboratory.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The middle finger of modernity.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.