If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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