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Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

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

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

Built from one couple’s vast personal collection, this free museum showcases a century’s worth of state-sponsored agitprop.

Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

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

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

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