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.

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

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

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.