A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

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

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

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

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

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

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.