A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

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

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

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.