The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.