A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

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

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

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

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

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.