Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.