The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.