A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

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

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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