A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.