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An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

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

Handmade treasures from around the world.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

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

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

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

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.