A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.