"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.