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Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

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

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The largest drain hole in the world.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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