This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.