This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.