Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

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

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

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

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

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

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.