The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

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

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Oldest building in California still in use.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

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.

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

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.