This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

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

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

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

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

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.