An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Inside this clubhouse is a cinephile's paradise.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.