A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

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

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.