A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

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.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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.