The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

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

The largest drain hole in the world.

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

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.