Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Handmade treasures from around the world.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.