Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

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

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

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

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.