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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

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

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Antiques by the Bay.

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

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

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

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

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

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.