If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

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

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.