The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

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

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

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

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

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

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

This enigmatic artifact is a rare depiction of an ancient Iberian noblewoman.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

The lengthy skeleton of one of the tallest Spaniards of all time is on display in Madrid.