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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

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

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

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

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

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

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