The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

Sojourn to the past at this residence teeming with 1950s memorabilia.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

Mexican food and folk art.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

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

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

A museum dedicated to the decorative arts from the 16th through 19th centuries.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.