Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

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

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.