Places Gizmo Chaos Wants to Go

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Home to an apple tree that can produce 25 different varieties of fruit.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.