A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

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

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

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.