The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

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

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

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

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

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.