A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Mexican food and folk art.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

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

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.