No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

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

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

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

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

Mexican food and folk art.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

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

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

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

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.