An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

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

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

The magic's in the hole!

An old World War II hangar holds 20 vintage aircraft and the rare opportunity to take a ride in a 1940s warbird.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.