The liveliest ghost town in the state.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

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

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.