The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Years of neglect and nature took a toll on this 19th-century lighthouse.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.