A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

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

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.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.