A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.