Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

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

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.