A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Mexican food and folk art.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.