In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

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

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

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

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

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

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

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.