Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

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

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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