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

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

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

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

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

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.