Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

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

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

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.