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

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

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

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

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.