Follow the yellow brick road. Actually, follow the yellow signs. Drive up a windy road and down a rugged driveway and you’ll find, nestled in a grove of redwoods, Santa Cruz’s very own Mystery Spot. Mystery Spots, more than a dozen of them across the nation, rose out of the pain caused by the Great…
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A Tour of Santa Cruz Strangeness
Artists, hippies and anyone with an acquired taste for the impossibly strange have been making the pilgrimage to Santa Cruz for decades. Drawn by the sheer beauty of the mountains and calm of the ocean, this city by the sea has collected a legendary reputation for keeping things different—even inspiring the local slogan “Keep Santa Cruz Weird”— but not everyone knows what keeps the magic going. Here’s a short list.
