Places Riot Leviathan Wants to Go

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

This Chinese art gallery is hidden inside the Sunrider Corporation headquarters.

One of California's oldest continually used high schools has an interesting history, both on and off screen.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.