Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

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

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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Inside this clubhouse is a cinephile's paradise.

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

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

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

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

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

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

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for nearly a century.

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

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.