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

The largest drain hole in the world.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

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

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.