Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The largest drain hole in the world.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.