A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Mexican food and folk art.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.