A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A large instrument played by the wind.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.