Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Half of a house.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

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

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.