Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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