A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

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

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.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.