The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

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

Delve into a wealth of oddities, antiques, and taxidermy treasures.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

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.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.