A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

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

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.