One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

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

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.