Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

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

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

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

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.