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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Antiques by the Bay.

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

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

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

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

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

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

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

The magic's in the hole!

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.