This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

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

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

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

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

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

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