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

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."