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.

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

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.