Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

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

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.