Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.