Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

"Only the devil could play golf here."