Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

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

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.