The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

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.

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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.