A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

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

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

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

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.