This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.