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

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.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.