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

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

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

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

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.