A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

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

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.