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

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

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

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

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

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