This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

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

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.