Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Tucked away behind an unassuming set of shops is a must-see series of stunning murals.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

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

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.