This odd little museum holds exhibits on everything from blacksmith equipment to hair jewelry.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

A large instrument played by the wind.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

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

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

This airfield played a key role in both World War II and the Cold War.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.