Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

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

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

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.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

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

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.