A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.