A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

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

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.