An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

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

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.