A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

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

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.