This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

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

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

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.