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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

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

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

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

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.