North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

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