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

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

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.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.