Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

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

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

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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

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

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

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

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.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.