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

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

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

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.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.