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

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

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

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.