Places Kaddyshack Wants to Go

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

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

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.