Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

One of Mexico's rare urban natural parks features waterfalls and a working fish farm.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.