A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.