This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

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

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.