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

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

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Oldest building in California still in use.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

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

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

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

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."