A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

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

Handmade treasures from around the world.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Antiques by the Bay.

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

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.