An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.