Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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