San Francisco, California
San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
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San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
Rosamond, California
Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Los Angeles, California
Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.
San Diego, California
Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.
Culver City, California
A modern day curiosity cabinet.
Los Angeles, California
Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
Los Angeles, California
Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Los Angeles, California
Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.
San Francisco, California
A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Los Angeles, California
Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.
Los Angeles, California
Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.
San Francisco, California
The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.
Los Angeles, California
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Los Angeles, California
Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."
Fresno, California
An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.