Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

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

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

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

Russian history in San Francisco.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.