A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

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

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

Hidden in one of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, this museum features an 1895 stagecoach and peers into California’s gold-lined history.

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

It would be a crime to miss it.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

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

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

The most popular attraction in Southern California was once a flock of ornery bipedal birds that pulled carts.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.