Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Half of a house.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.