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Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

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

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

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.