Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

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

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

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

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.