The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

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

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

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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.