A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

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

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

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

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

An Airy Would-Be Solution to a Housing Shortage.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

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

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.