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

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.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.