Places H2SO4 Wants to Go

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A large instrument played by the wind.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

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

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The largest drain hole in the world.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.