A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A large instrument played by the wind.

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

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

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

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.