This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

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

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

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.