A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This small oasis of flora and art was created in remembrance of a local auto business owner.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

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

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

A Buddhist retreat built on more than 100 acres of California Redwood forest.

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

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

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.