Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

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

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

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.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

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

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

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

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

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

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

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

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.