A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Because there's no place like home.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.