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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.