A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

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

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.