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The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.