The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.