Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.