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

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

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.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

This is one really big nut.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.