These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

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.

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

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

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

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

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

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

The world's longest known cave system.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

The largest drain hole in the world.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

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

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

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.