A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

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.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

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

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

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

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

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

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.